EricL, you spoiled a completely fascinating story and theory with some unnecessary facts. Surely, just as Nokia can be withdrawing from CDMA2000 and continuing with it simultaneously, we can have it that Nokia is run from the bedroom of the CEO and the patent-fighting legal department lady. I don't think we need facts.
You made a salacious story into boring domesticity.
Come to think of it, the whole CDMA business realm and "value chain" has been missing "salacious". Just as things got interesting, you poured cold water over my theory.
Maybe CDMA needs some hot gossip rather than tedious haggling over royalties. Maybe CDMA phones need a "Hot Button" which subscribers can press to get their favourite salacious automatic downloads via BREW. Another boring ring-tone seems to be the height of cyberphone excitement, with Tetris selling very well [Tetris is so last century].
Years ago I suggested "Get IT Here" which Verizon used, converting it to "Get It Now".
Here's the next recommendation - a "Hot Button". I'm not sure what it should do, but every phone should have one. Maybe it would dump straight to 10 top issues places which people select:
Hot phone number [booty call button]
Url for favourite porn
Url for email
... I don't know what. I just made it up. It should be Red, of course. Preferably fluorescent, or blinking in the dark. Probably a large button on the side, or front, or top.
While they are at it, they should be including a lot more of the Anita™ features. Mirror, flashlight, Geiger counter, thermometer, compass, etc etc etc are too slow getting to subscribers.
Swiss Army knives sell in the millions. Where is the cyberphone equivalent?
Sure, a purpose built thermometer will give 4 significant figures. The average person is okay within a degree. Altitude would be nice too and could be done with GPS. All that stuff. But a HOT Button would be nice. Maybe it has already been done. I suppose so. People are coming up with all sorts of ideas for cyberphones.
On reflection, I am sure there would be plenty of pillow talk about Nokia's legal position since she has knowledge, interest, and at their elderly ages, would be more into conversation than beer and having children. A bit like Nancy Reagan ran the White House and USA, and Hillary tried to as Chief Wife. There is an eons-long tradition of men looking as though they are in charge, while their wife pulls the strings, or at least has a LOT of influence, even if they are just living in sin together. Nokia is in BIG trouble.
Mqurice
PS: Here's another example, Margaret Pope was New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange's employee, then mistress, then ran the country through David's mindless lust for her feminine charms. His wife was not impressed. The country went down the gurgler. I'm sure Google can give you the salacious details. He died recently [some months ago] after years [decades] of medical problems related to obesity [greed].
Addendum: Reflecting a little further, I recall your recent retirement and change to more frequent attendance at home. I predict that you know very well that women have built into their genes that they must instruct and control any male who is living in a reproductive relationship with them, even if the possibility of reproduction is only a dim memory.
While out hunter-gathering, or chasing wildebeest in the corporate canyons of Wall Street or Cyberspace, he is free to do as he likes and use his talents to the full, and must do or die. But when back in the clutches of the cave and woman, his autonomy is gone and hen-pecking control begins.
If the woman has pretensions to be a lawyer, politician, or business leader, she will give him what-oh in that area. He, to keep the peace, will quietly comply and adopt her philosophies; Stockholm Syndrome doesn't apply just to Patty Hearst, the Nazi's Quisling supporters, and the eponymous victims in Stockholm. If living full-time with the ex-Nokia legal counsel on patents ... there will be problems for him ... he had best go out to the shed and tinker with a jet-powered beer cooler, war-games in cyberspace, a Graviton Spin Reversal System, new cybercurrency, or something. Or maybe go hunting golf balls with his hunter-gatherer mates. No wonder you have time to provide loads of information in SI. The system works. If he goes to Nokia in the day, she will want to know about it and tell him what by night. But maybe she isn't a woman and this principle doesn't apply to them. I will not bet on that. |
